On the morning of Saturday 30 November, the Custos of the Holy Land, Fra Francesco Patton, made his traditional entrance into Bethlehem, thus marking the start of the period of Advent. The celebrations began in the morning, when the Custos met the representatives of the Latin parish of Jerusalem and the parish priest, Fra Amjad Sabbara, at the diwan of St Saviour’s Convent. This was followed by an exchange of greetings and thanks with the Mukhtar, the representative of the […]
For thousands of years, pilgrims from every corner of the world have covered long distances to reach Jerusalem. Today, thanks to the initiative of Yael Tarasiuk and Golan Rice, these ancient routes can be travelled down once again and the experience of a pilgrimage in the Holy Land relived. The association “The Way to Jerusalem” offers the pilgrimage as an extraordinary opportunity to get to know the places of the Holy Land and its history, but also as an occasion […]
Maria de Lurdes Nunes, who was affectionately called Lurdinha by her friends, a journalist at the Christian Media Center and a missionary of Canção Nova, passed away on Friday 6 December, at the age of 64, after years of a battle against a tumour. She had returned to Brazil only a few weeks ago and a few days ago she was taken to the hospital of Barra Mansa (Rio de Janeiro). She died at 12 noon, reciting the prayer of […]
The bond between the Custody of the Holy Land and the rest of the world is kept alive by a network of Commissariats with the task of promoting the mission of the Franciscans in the Holy Land. They include the Commissariat in Washington, the oldest in the United States and which recently celebrated the 125th anniversary of its foundation. A network for the Holy Land Among the initiatives organized by the Commissariats in support of the charities of the Custody […]
